gershon hepner Poems

Linking past and present, future,
and attempting to correct
schisms with a timely suture
is the way we can connect
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Hedda, get your gun, appears to be
the message Ibsen hopes we’ll take away
from watching Mrs. Gabler breaking free,
though bound in marriage. It’s not just a play
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According to John Wilmot the enjoyment
that is the climax of lovemaking cuts off life
and fire after sexual deployment.
This tends to disappoint a mistress or a wife
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TELEOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED


For purpose we yearn,
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The door of absolution once again
is opened in the Catholic Church, and I
to its indulgences will say amen.
When the time will come for me to die
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Thoughts of afterlife can cause
a person to become reflective.
As soon as you’re beyond the jaws
of death they’ll show a retrospective,
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Not going into that good night as gentle
as the Romanian monk called Gregor Mendel,
Charles Darwin never understood genetics,
but when attacked by bishops, he required
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From Gehinnom to the middle class
they moved, and they became
a memory collectively of mass
destruction, living flame,
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Respect words that are heavy with their past,
accept the darkness through which they give light,
allow the essence of their being to excite
without the pallor with which thought is cast
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Religion, when it’s being spilt,
creates a dreadful mess called guilt;
it can’t be cleaned up with a mop,
but may be by a Yiddish kop.
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